i68 ANTIQUITIES OF NORTHUMBERLAND. 



: found a large quantity of Roman coins in a fmall urn, which "they 



: difpofed of to different people in and about Neivcaftte for their 



weight of our own money, which coming to the knowlege of 



the Lord .of the ,manour, William Archdeacon, Efq; he claimed 



them as treafure^trove, rand recovered near five hundred "filver, 



and fifteen gold, coins } almoil a compleat.feries of thofe of the 



: higher empire ; among them feveral 'Othv's ; mod of them in fine 



prefervation. 



' Tn'June, in the fame year, a coffin hewn out of a rock was 

 . difcovcred in digging near the fame place by fome labourers, 

 about twelve feet long, four broad, and two deep ; a hole clofe 

 to the bottom at one end ; a tranfverfc partition of flone and lime 

 about three feet from the other end ; many decayed bones, teeth, 

 and vertebras in it; fuppofed by their fliape and fize to be the re- 

 mains of fome animal, facrificed, perhaps, to Hercules. 



At the foot of the ftation, is 



RoucheJter-Tower, the feat and manour of Robert de Rouchefler, i 



K. Edward I (o) ; and of Gaiven de Rotherforth, 10 QJElizabeth (p: ; 



. now in the pofleffion of William Archdeacon, Efq; above-mentioned. 



By the 7th mile-ftone is the village of Heddon on the Wall, on 

 . the fouth-weft fide of which we have a good view of 



Clofe- Hoxfe, the feat of Robert Bewick, Efq; high flierifT of Noi'- 

 . thumberland) 1 695 ; and of Robert Beivick, Efq; high flierifF of 



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(o) R'jbertiu de Rcuchefter tenet Rwche/ier per dimiJ, f.-od. vet. Feoffam. .Baron -Ac.Prud- 

 bow.< Efcaet. de anno i Ed. I, 



(p) Gaixm Roi'ierforth fuit fcifitus do ct in Rwd'tfur, et Pa\vflon, cum ccrtis tcrris in 

 Banr.ere, Efcaet. de anno to Eliz. 



Nor- 



